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Movie Review: THE FABELMANS Starring Gabriel Labelle, Michelle Williams, Paul Dano

Posted: November 23, 2022 at 1:03 pm   /   Film

I can’t remember the first movie I ever watched, but I can easily remember the first movie that scared the crap out of me. When I was wee toddler Steve, […]

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Movie Review: RAYMOND AND RAY Starring Ewan McGregor, Ethan Hawke

Posted: October 21, 2022 at 1:30 pm   /   Movie Reviews

How do you say goodbye to someone you hate? I mean, in most cases, you don’t. If you see them in public, you’ll likely try to avoid them, unless you’re […]

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Movie Review: BULLET TRAIN Starring Brad Pitt, Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Aaron Taylor-Johnson

Posted: August 5, 2022 at 8:57 am   /   Movie Reviews

Some people avoid movie trailers. [Editor: I feel attacked] It’s not an entirely unreasonable decision; trailers can often spoil the plot or give away too many clues (see: Terminator 2). […]

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Movie Review: VENGEANCE Starring B.J. Novak, Isabella Amara, Nathaniel Augustson

Posted: July 29, 2022 at 8:35 am   /   Film, Movie Reviews

Typically when I write a review, I’ll use a personal anecdote or try and come up with some witty or clever (or at least something I think is witty or […]

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Movie Review: WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Taylor John Smith, Harris Dickinson

Posted: July 15, 2022 at 8:11 am   /   Movie Reviews

Back in grade school, I remember during one of our English classes, we had to take a chapter from a book (pretty sure it was Where the Red Fern Grows) […]

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Movie Review: ELVIS Starring Austin Butler, Tom Hanks, Olivia DeJonge, Helen Thomson

Posted: June 24, 2022 at 9:48 am   /   Movie Reviews

Towards the end of Elvis, there’s a montage of clips of the real-life Elvis performing, including one of the final renditions of “Unchained Melody” that he performed. It’s beautiful, heartbreaking, […]

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Movie Review: TOP GUN: MAVERICK Starring Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly

Posted: May 27, 2022 at 7:42 am   /   Movie Reviews

Sequels are common. It’s, well, common sense. What do film studios like more than making good movies? Money. If a movie makes enough money, they want more money. Good sequels […]

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Movie Review: FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE SECRETS OF DUMBLEDORE

Posted: April 15, 2022 at 9:34 am   /   Film, Movie Reviews

Boy, Grindelwald sure looks different, doesn’t he? The years seem to have changed him since Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. It probably wasn’t an easy decision to replace Johnny […]

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Movie Review: MORBIUS Starring Jared Leto, Adria Arjona, Matt Smith

Posted: April 1, 2022 at 8:06 am   /   Film, Movie Reviews

Every year during Oscar season, fellow ReviewSTL critic Brad Heyen puts together a little competition for everyone to make their Oscar picks. Admittedly, I don’t see nearly as many movies […]

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How Does THE BATMAN Compare to Previous Versions of The Caped Crusader?

Posted: March 4, 2022 at 6:41 am   /   Comic Books, Film

Comparisons are inevitable. Be it athletes (MJ vs. LeBron), franchises (Star Trek vs. Star Wars), music, TV, it’s almost in our nature to take two objects and see how they […]

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